So Monday morning I woke up, my nightgown marked with peanut butter. The thing is, I\u2019m not a sloppy eater, and I didn\u2019t have any peanut butter the night before. At least, I didn\u2019t think I did. But that was only the first clue. The second was a sticky taste in my mouth and a grumble in my stomach. I got on the scale and somehow \u2013 although I had skipped dinner \u2013 I had gained three pounds.Slowly, I went down the steps from our bedroom to the kitchen, confused. There, I was confronted with clues three and four: a discarded spoon smelling of peanut butter and in the garage, an empty container of \u2013 you guessed it, — peanut butter. It looked licked clean.<\/p>\n
By this time I was going a little nuts (!)\u2013 wondering if I had been taken over by ghosts or aliens \u2013 when I suddenly remembered several stories I had heard on the news in January about the sleep aid Ambien.<\/p>\n
For the past month, during a very stressful time, I had been taking Ambien to catch some zzz\u2019s. The stories I had heard about the drug seemed too bizarre to take into account: tales of emptied Oreo sleeves,\u00a0 folks shopping for and cooking entire meals and eating them while under the influence, with no memory of the experience afterwards. At all. They literally blacked out. It was akin to my heading downstairs in the middle of the night and downing an entire jar of Trader Joe\u2019s salted crunchy peanut butter. And then, in my sleep, sending the jar towards the recycling bin.<\/p>\n
For a veteran dieter and person with type 2 diabetes, this event struck me as cataclysmic.<\/p>\n
Not only did I have to find another way to get to sleep, but I had gained three pounds involuntarily. When I went to my doctor, he asked, \u201cWhere was the chocolate?\u201d\u00a0He had a good laugh about my recycling while sleepwalking, and took me off the drug.<\/p>\n
\u00a0I’ve been working on getting off those three pounds. I won’t let peanut butter in the house. the only upside? At least my subconscious went for\u00a0 low-carb.<\/p>\n
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